If you use Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), you might be aware of new "Add-on Performance Advisor" feature. Its a new component of IE9 which automatically and periodically checks for add-ons which might slow down IE and lets you disable those add-ons quickly and easily by showing a popup notification message "Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons" at the bottom-center of IE9 window as shown in following screenshot:
As you can see the popup notification bar also contains 2 buttons "Choose add-ons" and "Ask me later". If you click on "Choose add-ons" button, it shows a list of add-ons which might slow down the browser and provides a "Disable" button to disable one or all of the add-ons. If you click on "Ask me later" button, the advisor will again show the popup notification message after a pre-defined period of time.
Sometimes it becomes annoying to see this popup notification when you use selected add-ons and don't want to disable any of them but unfortunately IE9 doesn't provide any direct option to turn off the "Add-on Performance Advisor" and disable these annoying popup notification messages permanently.
Don't worry! Today in this tutorial, we are going to share 3 different methods to disable "Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons" popup notification message forever.
So without wasting time lets share these easy to use methods:
- Method 1: By increasing performance threshold
- Method 2: Using Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
- Method 3: Using Registry Editor (regedit)
METHOD 1: By Increasing Performance Threshold
You can disable this annoying popup message by increasing the performance threshold and setting it to the maximum limit given.
1. When the popup notification message appears again, click on "Choose add-ons" button. It'll open a new window as shown in following screenshot:
2. Now look at the bottom of the window. You'll see "Tell me when the delay caused by add-ons exceeds:" option. It would be set to 0.20 seconds by default. Click on the drop-down box and set it to 10.00 seconds. Click on "Done" button and it should disable the popup notification message permanently.
Now the question comes why should I wait for the annoying popup message to appear again? Can't I call it on demand? OK! No problem.
If you don't want to wait for the popup message, you can modify Windows Registry to either set the performance threshold to 10.00 seconds directly or to show the popup message instantly.
1. Type regedit in RUN or start menu search box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAO Settings
3. In right-side pane, double-click on "AddonLoadTimeThreshold", set Base to Decimal and set the value to 10000
4. Click on OK button and you have done.
5. If you don't want to change performance threshold using Registry but want to instantly open add-ons performance advisor popup message next time you launch IE, set value of "AddonLoadTimeThreshold" to 1 and delete "SuppressPerfBarUntil" key.
Deleting "SuppressPerfBarUntil" key will reset the launch time of add-ons performance advisor popup message and it'll appear automatically as soon as you launch IE window. Now you can increase the performance threshold using the steps given above.
METHOD 2: Using Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
If the above method looks complicated to you or you don't want to use the above mentioned method, you can give a try to following method:
1. Type gpedit.msc in RUN or start menu search box and press Enter. It'll open Group Policy Editor.
2. Now go to:
Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer
3. In right-side pane, double-click on "Disable add-ons performance notifications" option and set it to Enabled.
4. That's it. It'll permanently disable that annoying popup notification message in IE.
METHOD 3: Using Registry Editor (regedit)
Some Windows editions like Starter, Home Basic and Home Premium don't come with Group Policy Editor. Although you can enable Group Policy Editor in those Windows editions using this tutorial.
If you don't want or can't use Group Policy Editor, you can use Registry Editor for the same task:
1. Type regedit in RUN or start menu search box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
3. Create a new key under Policies key and set its name to Ext
4. Now select the new "Ext" key and in right-side pane, create a new DWORD DisableAddonLoadTimePerformanceNotifications and set its value to 1
5. If you are using 64-bit edition of Windows, you'll also need to follow the same steps 3 and 4 for the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
6. That's it. It'll permanently disable add-ons performance advisor's annoying "Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons" popup notification message in IE9.
NOTE: If you don't want to modify Windows Registry manually and want a ready-made registry script to do the task automatically, download following ZIP file, extract it and run the extracted REG file. It'll ask for confirmation, accept it and it'll automatically disable the add-ons popup notification message:
Download Registry Script to Disable Add-ons Popup Notification Message
That's it guys. Feel free to share your feedback about this tutorial or your experience about this popup notification message in IE...
Posted by: Vishal Gupta | Categories: Internet Explorer, Troubleshooting
Alex II
thnx. It worked. :)
Bill
Intersting - I use only one add-on enabled and this bar bugs me each month...
Gabriel
Awesome. Thanks to this tutorial I hope to have found a solution for a problem on a friend's computer.
Dale Thompson
Thank you! Finally a solution for Windows 7 "Home Premium" -- which lacks the ability to edit Group Policy!
Piyush
Awesome.. Thanks.. It is great to have this resolved.
Norm
Thanks a bunch! I always knew I was going to disable this pesky popup some day. I used your RUN suggestion and it worked like a charm.
IE, leaner and meaner? How about IE, more hateful! We're very lucky you already did the homework for us.
Again, thanks!
Norm
Rocky
Thsnks... Step # 3 worked for me.. I use ie9.
Michael Carr
this functionality is extremely annoying.
I don't want to spend hours trying to turn it off or dealing with it.
Does Ballmer think it is really productivce and enhances his products ( at least when he is cowering behind podiums from eggs that is!)
Time to make firefox brower of choice I guess.
David Higginbotham
A Big Thank You!!!
Clive Cooper
Geeeee! Thanks!
John MOrgan
Thank you for the tip! This has been annoying me for so long.
jason
Brilliant, thank you so much!
Frank
The "Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons" is really annoying. I hate it a lot. I make me choose Firefox or Chrome most of time. I have no idea why Microsoft have this stupid function (without easily disabling it) to reduce itself's score.
Thanks to provide the solution here. Awesome.
Gunnar
Why did I not see this post until now, both thumbs up
Michael Hastie
The pop-up notification message "Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons" was driving me mad. And, as I’m a complete novice with computers I didn’t know how to get rid them, but thanks to your Method 1 I finally got rid of them. Thank once again.
BobbyWoontz
Why the hell can't Microsoft make a simple on/off switch?
William Dunkle
Finally,finally,finally,I found a way to stop that annoying box.Thank you very kindly,sir,it's greatly appreciated.
Tom
Good article. Incidentally, using Local Group Policy differs in IE9 and IE10, I believe.
Using Local Group Policy to Disable Annoying “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” Message
For IE9, the instructions were: 1. Start Group Policy Editor (click Start and in the search/run box type gpedit.msc and hit return); 2. In the Policy Management Window that appears, navigate down to: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer and locate Disable add-on performance notifications - double-click on it to open it; 3. Select Enabled and click OK (check visually that it now says Enabled) 4. Close Group Policy Editor and restart IE9.
For IE10, there may be some differences. I used the gpedit.msc solution, with a modification from IE9: 1. Start Group Policy Editor (click Start and in the search/run box type gpedit.msc and hit return); 2. In the Policy Management Window that appears, navigate down to: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer and locate and enable "Turn off add-on performance notifications;" 4. Close Group Policy Editor and restart IE10.
Matt
Thanks for this article. Any tweaks to get these instructions to work for IE10?